Total Hip Replacement
Total hip replacement is commonly recommended to patients who have advanced arthritis of the hip and continue to have pain and functional problems despite appropriate nonoperative treatments. Total hip replacements have been performed for more than 40 years and have shown to be very reliable at achieving the goal of reducing or even eliminating pain in the hip from advanced arthritis. By reducing or eliminating pain in the hip, function and quality of life can be improved as well (walking farther, ability to negotiate stairs without a rail, participating in weight bearing activities). Longer term studies (Lancet 2017) indicate that approximately 85% of hip replacements had not required revision surgery at 20 years. In other words, less than 2 in 10 people had needed a new replacement surgery by 20 years. Bear in mind that these replacements were put in before 1996, and technology has improved since that time.
Outpatient Surgery
With multimodal pain management techniques, less invasive surgical techniques, and blood conservation strategies practiced by our physicians, total hip replacement can be safely performed as an outpatient procedure in the majority of patients.
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